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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 343–362.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Isabelle Hoog Naginski Isabelle Haag Naginski ACCIDENTAL FAMILIES: RITUAL AND INITIATION IN HORACE AND LA COMTESSE DE RUDOLSTADT Crashing Through Chapter 27 of Horace takes the reader to the Paris barricades. The revolt of June 1832, one of many between the two revolutions of 1830 and 1848...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 575–579.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the historical mutations of this double concept of accident, Hamilton develops three main lines of argument: first, he insists on the "symbiotic relationship" that exists between accidental qualities and accidental events; second, he relates both categories to the notion of identity (8); third, he makes the case...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 579–582.
Published: 01 November 2009
... was "the awareness of the complex interrelation between accidental qualities and accidental events that had developed from Aristotelian theories" (117), but he states a few pages later that Locke's theory of the mind "brings together the double signification of accident as both quality and event" (127). These points...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 245–262.
Published: 01 May 2000
... demonstrations in Paris. Future suicides Rene Crevel, Boris Poplavsky, Drieu La Rochelle, jacques Rigaut, and julien Torma participated in these shows haunted by Cravan's spirit. In 1919, jacques Vache and his two friends were found dead, officially from an accidental opium overdose. But according to his myth...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 153–161.
Published: 01 January 2000
... as paradigmatic of the way in which chance can be made to appear intentional: the most amazing accidental occurrences are those which seem to have been providential, for instance when the statue of Mitys at Argos killed the man who caused Mitys's death by falling on him THE 'WONDERFUL' WORLD OF CALDERON 155...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 271–291.
Published: 01 May 2004
... or unhappy outcomes of accidental events. All types of accidental experience began to accrue significance as elements that could form the course of a life. Their increasing importance seemed to require interpretation, and how an individual reacted to an experience appeared to determine the eventual outcome...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 463–464.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., Ernest Renan, and 1848," 233-52 Massardier-Kenney, Fran<;oise, "Histoires de famille: Family Histories in Sand," 377-85 McCall, Ann, "Fonctions narratives, dysfonctions familiales: Ie "parler-pere' dans les Lettres a Marcie," 325-41 Naginski, Isabelle Hoog, "Accidental Families: Ritual and Initiation...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 317–329.
Published: 01 May 2012
... books, the project of the Library of Alexandria was bankrupt to begin with, and its THE LIBRARY OF THE DISASTER 321 accidental destruction by the retreating troops of Julius Caesar, nothing to especially regret. Similar arguments were made by European writers in the Renaissance, though during...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 13–15.
Published: 01 January 2017
... inadvertently walking in on a formal dinner party to which he or she could have been invited but w asn t. The host quickly fetches some stool or foldable chair, a plate and silverware that d on t match the set, and seats our underdressed accidental diner at a corner of the table so that everyo ne can go...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 79–82.
Published: 01 January 2017
... with stiff backs, analyzing a painting with such great emotional investment, in a room where we had arrived accidentally by detour. Maybe that meaning would come later, in a deferred way, for them as it did for me. In a prior letter, Ross had expressed his gratitude for the bonds of friendship and care...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and then segue, as party chat requires, into some other harmless topic. But she had accidentally pushed some of my buttons, tapping into both a personal anxiety and a political concern of mine. I heard myself expounding to her the high incidence of skin cancer, especially among Australians of Anglo-Celtic...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 287–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... reversal that renders their fiction accidentally reactionary. Though Vasset has of late been criticized for the “metaphysical and megalomaniacal humanistic baggage” of his “quasi-utopian” imagined communities (Armstrong 164), some might take issue with the way that the concept of degenerative realism makes...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 405–420.
Published: 01 May 2003
... does not save him from "accidental" death in the jungles of Guyana. But prior to the central episode, Celanire has climbed the social ladder and emancipated herself from purported would-be nun to schoolmistress and mistress of the governor. Her charms turn out nefarious for the governor's wife, fatal...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... on the Decameron) implies, more than a mere "bent" toward the classical world, an impressive knowledge of some of its most celebrated authors. Here and elsewhere, one feels that Rebhorn is in conflict with himself-unaccountably casting Boccaccio as an accidental humanist who groped his way blindly...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Balzac depicts the gender mobility of a female author only to contain it, this time through spousal mandate. Returning from a bal at eight in the morning, dressed en débardeur , Dinah accidentally meets her husband; despite his tiny stature and cuckoldry, M. de la Boudraye continues to wield...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2016
... accidentally been born. These people, the transfuges, were always-a lready free in an alienated world where they fought to become something else, against and despite their milieu, in order to achieve their difference. James Baldwin writes: Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 455–478.
Published: 01 November 2001
... through the spontaneous inauguration of new types of celebrations and ceremonies. Thus, when the shop and its contents are accidentally covered with a thick layer of soot, Joseph proves himself to be not only a source of good sense and practical wisdom: he actually succeeds in transforming the calamity...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 135–149.
Published: 01 January 2004
... Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University 136 MIKKO KESKINEN A radio magazine accidentally publishes, in connection with Vox's name, the photograph of a tennis player, who happens to correspond to the audience's image of Tristan's physical appearance. When the athlete, Frederic Durateau, comes...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 457–464.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Blacks and Jews after a Hasidic driver accidentally killed a Guyanese-born boy, Gavin Cato, setting off the violence that then killed a young Australian Yeshiva student, Yankel Rosenbaum. You are wondering what such a neighborhood can possibly look like, imagining it, and, literally, trying to figure...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 173–183.
Published: 01 January 2002
... a supernatural witness by gunsmoke. 1o There is more to this symbolism than the accidental dimming of light by an external agent, such as a cloud. Light is faint or blurred or gloomy because Hugo consistently places it in a context of darkness. It is as though engendered by night. This effect is achieved...
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